From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Artem Lytkin <iprintercanon@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, urezki@gmail.com,
shivamkalra98@zohomail.in, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: make vm_struct.nr_pages an unsigned long
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:28:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ampGVI1MLmnLksnN@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729175708.7074-1-iprintercanon@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 08:57:08PM +0300, Artem Lytkin wrote:
> A vmalloc area can hold more than 2^32 pages, but the page counts
I had a "wait, what, really?" moment. And it can! 2^32 pages is 16TiB,
and x86-64 says:
ffffc90000000000 | -55 TB | ffffe8ffffffffff | 32 TB | vmalloc/ioremap space (vmalloc_base)
So we can have _one_ allocation that is more than 2^32 pages. But I'm
not sure where we'll get the memory to populate it from.
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/announcing-oci-compute-e6-acceleron-instances
says I can get 2.3TB of memory in a single machine, which is a factor of
8 away from where we'd need to be to actually hit this.
Intel are adveertising a max memory of 1.5TiB on the 6990E+ (128GiB *
12 channels). So if you put 8 Xeons in a box and loaded it up, that
could get you to 12TiB.
I'm not saying we shouldn't fix this, but it's all theoretical for now,
right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-29 17:57 [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: make vm_struct.nr_pages an unsigned long Artem Lytkin
2026-07-29 18:28 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2026-07-29 21:45 ` Andrew Morton
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